Work & commute · Dortches

Work & commute in Dortches, NC

Most working residents leave Dortches for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Rocky Mount (37%), Raleigh (9%) and Nashville (5%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

2 of 423 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

14%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 421 Dortches residents head out of town to work, 2 work right here, and 265 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Dortches.

421live here, work elsewhere

2live and work here

265work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Dortches goes to work

Rocky Mount4 mi away

37%157

Raleigh45.6 mi away

9%37

Nashville6.3 mi away

5%23

Wilson19.8 mi away

5%22

Greenville39.4 mi away

3%12

Charlotte176 mi away

2%9

Tarboro18.3 mi away

2%8

Roanoke Rapids32.2 mi away

1%6

Red Oak4.3 mi away

1%5

Durham58.2 mi away

1%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

33%139

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Dortches commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

51%

10%

20%

19%

51%Under 10 mi

10%10–24 mi

20%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Dortches is a commuter town

0.63jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.63 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Dortches are

267 jobs are based in Dortches. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Dortches’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Dortches

267 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)37%

Trade, transport & utilities50%

Services (health, schools, offices…)13%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month43%

Over $3,333 a month38%

Jobs Dortches residents hold

423 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month60%

+109%

Jobs based in Dortches, 2013 → 2023: 128 → 267. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.